Incognito (Stands So Far series)

[madimpossibledreamer]

I’m very, very sorry, Mr. Kujo, but we appear to be missing the picture of Sarde’s Stand.  We’re not entirely certain where it went—adjusting to this ‘alternate dimension’ thing has been a bit of an adjustment, even for the Speedwagon Foundation, and given that he was a Foundation Employee he could have come in and removed the picture of his Stand before we realized exactly how…untrustworthy the man was.

Don’t mince words.  The guy’s a bastard, pure and simple, and Josephine’s been warning you for years.  If I’d had any idea of the lengths the guy was willing to go and how insane he was, even the word of a Speedwagon wouldn’t have stopped me from Ora’ing his ass.  Mercia and a new Joestar kid are counting on you, so don’t let them down.

…Right, Mr. Kujo.  We’ll pull in our interns, and we’ll find this picture or at least get someone on sketching.

Incognito

Stand User: Gordon Sarde

Power: D	Speed: A	Range: C
Durability: E	Precision: E	Potential: D

 

Incognito’s power is not in direct combat.  In fact, it excels most when no fight takes place.  Despite this, it is considered one of the great assets of the Speedwagon Foundation most dangerous enemy Stands in existence, simply because there is very little way of defending against it.  As with many, it is better to target the User himself.

The power was hailed as a humane way of dealing with rogue or evil Stand Users—you could let them live on and potentially be a boon to society.  However, it clearly has a dark side as Sarde’s ulterior motives have demonstrated.   

Goodbye to Yesterday-If the Stand touches you, it can ‘stamp’ over part of your identity.  For example, it can erase a distinctive birthmark or make you forget a childhood memory.  The effect is cumulative, though if you can somehow break away, the countdown will start over.  The Stand is stronger (i.e. has a higher Power ranking) when it actively focuses on using this ability, but this also decreases the User’s awareness.  If it reaches the end point, it can completely rewrite your identity, to the point that even those closest to you may not recognize you despite your resemblance.  It doesn’t fully change your appearance (for example, Josephine retained the red hair), but it’s a kind of mental influence—those looking at you won’t recognize you.  It may completely alter personality, and those in your new identity (for example, memories of a family to which you never really belonged) will share the same false memories of a shared past that never truly existed.  It doesn’t erase the fact that you existed—those in your old life will still remember you existed and that you disappeared one day, but the likelihood of you being found is very low.  Sarde cannot control the outcome, but since he’s not likely to be attacked by someone to whom he’s now a stranger, there’s no real need to do so.  The only known ‘antidote’, so to speak, is apparently Crazy Diamond’s ability to fix things, but as Josuke would have to know a) that this is someone affected by Incognito and b) who they used to be, it is unlikely that this is widely applicable.  The fact that he was able to find his daughter itself is remarkable, given Goodbye to Yesterday’s own defensive memory/recognition altering mechanism.